Nat'l Politics; Red State Teacher Strikes; How to Close the Income Gap; Universal Basic Income

Coming up on today's show: 

• Karen Tumulty, political columnist for The Washington Post, discusses the latest national political news. 
  
  
• On Monday, teachers in Kentucky and Oklahoma walked out of school to protest cuts in pay, benefits and school funding. Josh Eidelson, labor reporter at Bloomberg News, and Lawrence Lane, a history teacher from Checotah, Oklahoma, and an OEA member, talk about the strikes, which have grown in force since starting in West Virginia earlier this year.
  
  
• Ibram X. Kendi, history and international relations professor at American University, director of The Antiracist Research and Policy Center, and a columnist at The Atlantic, continues our conversation from last Friday on income mobility and offers policy solutions to close the gap. Then, Denene Millner, a New York Times bestselling author and the editor of Denene Millner Books, an imprint of Agate Publishing, joins to discuss her Times op-ed about raising her children with a new definition of success.
  
  
• Andrew Yang, an entrepreneur, founder of the non-profit Venture for America, 2020 presidential hopeful, and the author of The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future (Hachette Books, 2018), argues that the elimination of jobs due to automation and artificial intelligence means we need to move away from a market-based economy and provide a universal basic income to all.